Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] longer [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From March 1 , roubles were no longer accepted for cash transactions in the state sector , being replaced by coupons or transactions in rouble bank accounts . |
| 2 | At about this time tights were no longer worn on stage : ‘ wet white ’ was used for the Girls ' legs . |
| 3 | Eight institutions replied that they were no longer engaged in teacher education , others that there was no time , or no member of staff available to complete the questionnaire . |
| 4 | And they were no longer held in check by the culturally conservative trade-union movement , which was experiencing a sharp decline in its prestige and power . |
| 5 | The increase coincided with the escalation of pro-democracy protests and with political reform , and there were reports that border guards were no longer shooting on sight people caught attempting to cross the heavily fortified frontier . |
| 6 | Often a young man might be led to join up by the death of his mother , the remarriage of his father , and a resulting feeling that he was no longer wanted at home . |
| 7 | I listened carefully to what the Secretary of State said about the reasons for the 1980 decision whereby the pension was no longer increased in line with earnings . |
| 8 | chipped out , aye and of course we had a machine doing all that work , it was no longer done by hand it was done by machine |
| 9 | While the pope was thus able to tax the English church only by the will of the king , the king 's taxation was no longer restrained by canon law or at the mercy of the pope or — to any great extent — of an archbishop . |
| 10 | She did , to say she was no longer travelling by air the next morning . |